Finished Projects From Our House Restoration

Today I'm going to share with you some of the completed projects that we have done. I will explain how we did some of them so if you wand to try it at home you'll know how!

This was presented in an earlier post. This is our Tryde Coffee Table. We got these plans for free from Ana White and after a few weeks of use I can say truthfully that I absolutely love it. It is very sturdy and can withstand my three children's bums and my husbands feet lol. I would highly recommend anyone who wants to start out woodworking to build this piece. Especially if you need a table. It only takes a few hours to build with minimal tools. Just finish to your taste.

These are my painted curtains in our bedroom. I like them but I'll tell you a little secret, they weren't supposed to be like this lol. I messed up while painting these so I changed the color pattern. It was supposed to be every other with the "white" and TeePee from Behr Paint. But I accidentally skipped a stripe with the TeePee so I just filled it in with the Soulful Music by Behr Paint. And they turned out like this. I really love it. The euro shams on our bed are reversible using these same two colors. So I'm able to switch them out and still have everything match in our room. Here is a brief tutorial of how I painted my curtains. Then here is the tutorial I used as a guide line.

And this is our new king sized bed!! Farmhouse bed frame from Ana White to come shortly. I'm hoping that by the end of June the frame will be completed.

These pillow covers are a Pinterest knock off. They are absolutely no sew and were made using old curtains I had. Now I would not recommend using this type of material, especially having family who uses these pillows for lounging. You can find the tutorial here.

This is another Pinterest find. Submerged flowers, I love it. It adds a touch of delicacy to any room or table. I had the hurricane vases previously. And I picked up two garlands of spring flowers from Joann's for $12. I trimmed the garland down to the length I needed, times two. Then I criss crossed the two garland strands to form an "x" and then placed the in the vase. And I added water and this is what I got!. It's super easy and with coupons super cheap.

These are the painted curtains in the living room. This was supposed to be the pattern in our master bedroom but I screwed that up lol. I used the same tactic in painting these and the bathroom ones(below) as I did for our bedroom.

And these are in our bathroom. We're trying to keep the whole nautical theme throughout the bedroom and bathroom. More decorations are to come!! But it's going to take time.

Let me know what you all think? Do you think it's too much stripe? I got a little carried away lol. Let me know of any other home decor/DIY projects that would look great with these themes!!

House Renovation Update!!

So as I've told you all that my hubby and I were going to be updating our house design and decorative wise. Well that plan has finally been underway!!! We've gotten a few small things accomplished but we are way behind schedule. The plan was to have all the decor and furniture building done by March 2. But I'm not so sure we're going to make it lol.

Right now I'm going to take you through the processes. The painting, building and decor processes that we'll be doing to update our home.

In the process of finishing the Euro Shame for the Master

Painting the curtains for our bedroom Behr Paint in Soulful Music and Brown TeePee

One of our tie backs from Urban Outfitters

Daddy and Maddalaena time

Daddy with MJ

Lace covered Canvas for the girls room.

Me in the "process" of lining the girls lamp shade

I could not bear to have pics up without my family being displayed in them. Meet my eldest, Seamus

Maddalaena is performing surgery on Daddy

Lylian is performing eye surgery

And now onto the abdominal cavity...

Ok back to DIYing. Here is half the lamp shade completed

DIY fabric tutu skirt.

From the side

The crazy amount of wood needed to complete the crazy amount of tasks.

Look it's as big as Lylian!!

Our garage transformed into a workshop/storage facility/man cave

I couldn't resist showing you the gorgeous tie backs I received from Urban Outfitters

"Tarping" the wall for curtain painting

Richard hanging the taped curtains

Maddalaena taking a bite out of the step stool

Doesn't he look excited to be doing this?

Ms. Adorable

"Say something to my face!"

All this work tuckered her out

Taped curtains hung!!

All little bit of jail humor

Monkey. Kidnapped and held for ransom by one Maddalaena Jacqueline Allen

Playing with styrofoam. We didn't get enough snow so Lylian thought that she would make some.

And meet Richard, my wonderful tolerant husband

Seamus always has to be in on the action

Building Blake's dresser

Maddalaena in the back joining in on the snow making

The Ikea Lack inspired bookcase

What's a "worktable" without food?

The painting process. Living room curtain on left and bedroom curtain on right

Now the bathroom curtain

Wood project number two. The altered bookcase

I thought that wooden beams in the back would look much better than a painted wall.

Man was I right.

Make shift work bench

The tools that got this project done

Darling baby girl

Taking a much needed break.

And there you have in a nut shell. All the things we have been up to over the last two weeks. Painting curtains, building furniture and trying out some Pinterest ideas. Come back and check out the finished projects!! Also let me know what you think? Do you like the striped curtains? Is there anything lacking(besides paint on the walls)? What would you do differently? Have any of you tried any Pinterest ideas lately? I'd love to hear from you all. God Bless!